Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 94, 23 April 1894 — The Mammoth Fraud. [ARTICLE]

The Mammoth Fraud.

The registration is closed. The patriot» (’) desiring to vote for i the delegites who will be permit ted to pass the ready made, cnt ' aud dried constitution tbat will hnalK’ show the p. g. in its proper light and prove the bigotry, the selfi.shntas and the laek of | princip!es of the men now posing, as true, honest and sincere Hawaiiana bave taken the famous oath to support the p. g , and—then ovorthrow it by creating a new governmcnt, and cverything is as mern’ as a marriage-bell. But in spite of the raerriness, and the happiness there is a very uglv featuro connected with the atfair. The registrations books for Honolulu show that 1507 men qualified to heeome votors. Included in that number are all the members of the anny, the poliee, and the government ofiicials. About 500 Portugne.se have registered, and less thau 200 Hawaiians cou!d be induced or threatened or bulldozed to take the oath that made them traitors. We shall not entor into figures at this date, but as soon as the returns from the islands are in, wo shall provo what a fake what a miserable sham this election is, comparing the nuraber of voters now registered with the number entit!ed to a voto under the coustitutional government, it will be shown,that not evon one in tcn of tho taxpayers backed the government and proved themselves roady to support it. Mr. Smith of theSf<;p registered under protest. His patriotism doesn’t CO fav t\j uilwn Mfti lO jeopardize his Amei’iean citizenship. The same wasthe case with the ex-papa of anuexatiou, Dr, Mc(rrew, althongh it will always reraain a ‘mariue-hospitar mystery, why he should desire to rotain his Americau citizenship. The truth is thnt the | governmeut has no backing. It i is simply temporarily supported and tolerated partly, because the opponeuts of it, for the aako of tho welfare of the country, are ' unwilling to iujure the credit of tho land by another revolution, i and partly, bccause the Hawaiians having submitted their cause to America—and received . a favorable answer, do not desire to anticipate through auv act of precipitated violence the future actious of the Uniteii States. But, how meau, and how eontemptible must the annexationsits foel when they eall to mind that Mr. McStocker or whoeverdirect- i ed the annexation club made—a solemn —and as was presumed honest statement that the club repre»ented seveu thousand (7,000) voters or more than a majority of the registered voters in Hawaii nei. Where gentlemen are the rest of tbe 7.0tX)?or who is respousible for the outrageous falsehood. lie or misrepresentation that lead Stevons to make 1 an ass of himself aud that some • day will plaee the great patriots(‘) and jingoists, from Dole down, in a very uneviable and dangerous position in the eyes of amen.